Except companies use opensource to make themselves richer and more powerful.
Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
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Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
#12Hi HN, creator here! Today is a good day, the achievement of months of works (but also the start of a great adventure ). I'm very excited to announce Bloom: A free and Open source ‘Google’. Our mission ? Empowering the world with open technologies. Why? How? What? https://kerkour.com/blog/bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google Website: https://bloom.sh Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bloom…
It's a laudable project but why are you accepting bitcoin if you're so concerned about the ecological crisis? It seems kind of contradictory, given how bitcoin transactions are so computationally expensive now that they reportedly consume about the same amount of energy as Denmark.
I have a feeling that for Bitflow (the Bittorrent downloader) many customers will strongly prefer bitcoin. Offering it is not an arbitary choice but a requirement for success of that part of the product.
Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
#13Wow, ambitious! Your sheer nerve is enough to click on the link and check it out. :) As a potential early adopter that has seen countless would-be world-changing technology efforts come and go, in order to personally get me on the bandwagon, it would help to know a few things that didn't stand out to me at first, even after visiting the https://bloom.sh website. (1) When I think Google I think "search" first and fore…
Hi, Thank you very much for these encouraging words! (1) You are totally right, I plan to use this wording only to target the 'geeks' (those who may be early adopters, contributors), those who see Google more like a very innovative tech giant rather than just a search engine (2) As written at the bottom of the article (yes I acknowledge it's very very long) the master plan is as follow: 1. Build free software and cha…
FWIW, I work for Google (not on google.com), and would definitely fit into the "geek" category, and I still assumed you were talking about an OSS search engine.
Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
#14Worth reading: http://blog.nullspace.io/building-search-engines.html
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#15What are your plans as far as sunsetting unpopular or unmaintained services?
Ha, hopefully that's not the part of Google they are talking about emulating.
Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
#16Regarding Bloom Drive you mention > And Bloom Drive is encrypted using SSL. You mean the connection is encrypted, right ? Or was there a typo ?
Sorry, it was a copy/past from One drive or something similar.
Currently it's only uploaded on a S3 (with encryption activated).
End to end encryption is on the roadmap.
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#17What are your plans as far as sunsetting unpopular or unmaintained services?
At least They will remain open source.
But sorry I haven't thought more about the question.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, Thank you very much for these encouraging words! (1) You are totally right, I plan to use this wording only to target the 'geeks' (those who may be early adopters, contributors), those who see Google more like a very innovative tech giant rather than just a search engine (2) As written at the bottom of the article (yes I acknowledge it's very very long) the master plan is as follow: 1. Build free software and cha…
FWIW, I work for Google (not on google.com), and would definitely fit into the "geek" category, and I still assumed you were talking about an OSS search engine.
Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting,
I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content.
I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productivity suit, and because they have an app for all the need of our life. At an extraordinary price, even if it cost noting.
Productivity is the current foundation, but you can think having a Bloom open source tractor in some years :)
Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
#19Hi HN, creator here! Today is a good day, the achievement of months of works (but also the start of a great adventure ). I'm very excited to announce Bloom: A free and Open source ‘Google’. Our mission ? Empowering the world with open technologies. Why? How? What? https://kerkour.com/blog/bloom-a-free-and-open-source-google Website: https://bloom.sh Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bloom…
It's a laudable project but why are you accepting bitcoin if you're so concerned about the ecological crisis? It seems kind of contradictory, given how bitcoin transactions are so computationally expensive now that they reportedly consume about the same amount of energy as Denmark.
You are totally right and I've to admit that I didn't thought about so much.
I'll fix it !
Re: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'
#20Worth reading: http://blog.nullspace.io/building-search-engines.html
Hi, currently we absolutely do not plan to create a search engine: it requires too much resources for self hosting, I think we currently have great option for all the spectrum (From Google search to DuckDuckGo), and because an open source search engine will be tricked by all kind of nasty SEO Experts and it will be very hard to promote actually good Content.
I dared the Google comparison thinking about it's productivity suit, and because they have an app for all the need of our life. At an extraordinary price, even if it cost noting.
Productivity is the current foundation, but you can think having a Bloom open source tractor in some years :)